Hi My nephew pHred, his girlfriend Libby, and I went to Waterbury Ctr. VT and found a Northern Hawk Owl that was reported back on December 15th. We found it perched in a tree on the western side of Rt 100, a little bit north of the center of town. It was a bit bedraggled by the rain, but even a soggy Hawk Owl is pretty handsome. After rewarding ourselves at the Lake Champlain Chocolate store, we decided to head to Addison. Along the way, we found one dark morph Rough-legged Hawk along Rt 22a in Vergennes, another dark morph and a light morph bird along Rt 17, and then two Snowy Owls. One was across from the Dead Creek goose viewing area and the other was a bit further west. Further along, in West Addison, we found a mixed flock of about two dozen birds, mostly Lapland Longspurs, plus about 5 Snow Buntings and at least one Horned Lark. We finished up at the Crown Point Bridge. The water was open a little ways north of the bridge. From the walkway, we scoped an immature Bald Eagle, numerous gulls (mostly Herrings and a few Greater Black-backed) and two separate rafts of ducks, one mostly Common Mergansers, the other mostly Common Goldeneyes with a few Scaup mixed in. There was another, much larger raft of ducks a bit farther north. John Granton Canaan NH **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************